TY - JOUR
T1 - No significant association of repeated messages with changes in health compliance in the covid-19 pandemic
T2 - A registered report on the extended parallel process model
AU - Yang, Jingwen
AU - Wu, Xue
AU - Sasaki, Kyoshiro
AU - Yamada, Yuki
N1 - Funding Information:
The following grant information was disclosed by the authors: Kyoshiro Sasaki: JSPS KAKENHI, JP19K14482. Yuki Yamada: JP16H03079, JP17H00875, JP18K12015 and JP20H04581.
Funding Information:
This research is supported by JSPS KAKENHI: JP19K14482 to Kyoshiro Sasaki, and JP16H03079, JP17H00875, JP18K12015, and JP20H04581 to Yuki Yamada. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - When people are confronted with health proposals during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it has been suggested that fear of COVID-19 can serve protective functions and ensure public health compliance. However, health proposal repetition and its perceived efficacy also influence the behavior intention toward the proposal, which has not yet been confirmed in the COVID-19 context. The present study examined whether the extended parallel process model (EPPM) could be generalized to a naturalistic context like the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, we explored how repetition of a health proposal is involved with the EPPM. In this study, two groups of participants were exposed to the same health proposal related to COVID-19, where one group was exposed once and another group twice. Participants then filled out a questionnaire consisting of items concerning behavior intention and adapted from the Risk Behavior Diagnosis Scale. Structural equation modeling was used to determine the multivariate associations between the variables. Although the results showed that behavior intention is predicted by perceived efficacy, no significant influence of perceived threat was detected. Furthermore, no significant effect of repetition was found toward either response efficacy or perceived susceptibility. These findings indicate that to promote health compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more efficient to focus on health proposals' perceived efficacy rather than the disease's perceived threat. For future health communication research, the present study suggests improved analysis strategies and repeated manipulation of messages.
AB - When people are confronted with health proposals during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it has been suggested that fear of COVID-19 can serve protective functions and ensure public health compliance. However, health proposal repetition and its perceived efficacy also influence the behavior intention toward the proposal, which has not yet been confirmed in the COVID-19 context. The present study examined whether the extended parallel process model (EPPM) could be generalized to a naturalistic context like the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, we explored how repetition of a health proposal is involved with the EPPM. In this study, two groups of participants were exposed to the same health proposal related to COVID-19, where one group was exposed once and another group twice. Participants then filled out a questionnaire consisting of items concerning behavior intention and adapted from the Risk Behavior Diagnosis Scale. Structural equation modeling was used to determine the multivariate associations between the variables. Although the results showed that behavior intention is predicted by perceived efficacy, no significant influence of perceived threat was detected. Furthermore, no significant effect of repetition was found toward either response efficacy or perceived susceptibility. These findings indicate that to promote health compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more efficient to focus on health proposals' perceived efficacy rather than the disease's perceived threat. For future health communication research, the present study suggests improved analysis strategies and repeated manipulation of messages.
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U2 - 10.7717/peerj.11559
DO - 10.7717/peerj.11559
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107484672
VL - 9
JO - PeerJ
JF - PeerJ
SN - 2167-8359
ER -